Shivangi Singh

“Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” Clearly Kate Moss has never been to India! For some reason all my relatives, friends, friends’ parents, neighborhood aunties and uncles feel it’s their birth right to make faces or snide remarks about my extra slim body type. When I retort by letting them know that I naturally have the exact physical configurations of...

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” Whenever I reflect on my life, these words by Ruskin Bond come to mind. As a B.Tech. Graduate who decided to ditch the luxury of a corporate job and embraced the challenging and exciting life of a teacher, my choice was...

“So, what, in your opinion, does a Red Light Area look like?” The green-eyed young Founder was quizzing me, a new volunteer, on the distinct field of work I was opting for. She went on to answer her question as I merely shrugged in response, “I want every volunteer to be prepared for what they are about to see. It...

The big fat Indian wedding is almost a cliché. Who’s-who of the west find it an instant attraction. Scroll through the channels on TV and you will find that all the daily soaps are unanimously based on this theme. In a country so obsessed with marriage when the Delhi High Court issues a commandment decreasing the marriageable age of...